Subject: Re: zbufs for NetBSD
To: None <kyle.unice@L-3com.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/23/2002 21:39:40
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 10:10:00AM -0600, kyle.unice@L-3com.com wrote:
> Jason,
> I appreciate the comments, but we are getting a bit de-focused.  For a
> network applications programmer using NetBSD, zbufs would (in most cases) be
> a benefit.

I'm not so sure - I just read the vxworks book (lurking on my desk) -
the overheads of that interface could easily mean that copying the
data is actually a gain!
After all you are going to have to copy rx'ed data in order to
process it....

	David

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